{"id":887,"date":"2010-04-12T19:29:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T19:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:39:48","slug":"exhaust-looks-great-fuel-tank-does-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/mega-squirt-efi\/vw-trike\/exhaust-looks-great-fuel-tank-does-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhaust Looks Great, Fuel Tank Does Not"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The exhaust is installed, albeit temporarily. It looks great! It mounts low and does not obscure all those pretty purple and chrome bits on the engine. \":)\" I hope, however, that the baja bumper clears it.<\/p>\n

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It’s temporarily mounted because I wanted to verify fit and take a couple of pictures. I’m very pleased with how it’s looking. As for the exhaust, before it is permanently installed, I need to strip to factory paint off it. The paint on it is plain ol’ paint intended to keep it from rusting on the boat. It is *not* high heat paint. While it’s bare, I will install the oxygen sensor bung, then repaint it with high heat paint. It’s too bad there doesn’t appear to be a purple high heat paint, at least none that I’ve found.<\/p>\n

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I also finished a few other things that were pending, like completing the installation of the alternator and putting the belt on.<\/p>\n

While all that was going on, I set the fuel tank on a stand and put about an inch of gasoline in the bottom of it. It did not immediately appear to be leaking, but once I’d gone on and forgotten about it, I came back to see a fairly large puddle on the floor under it. \":(\"<\/p>\n

The entire bottom of the tank was wet, so I couldn’t really tell where it was coming from.<\/p>\n

I used\/tested the fuel pump to empty the tank and another day, I will lightly pressurize it with air and find the leak(s) with soap bubbles. Maybe I’ll be lucky and it will be around the pump, needing only a better gasket to fix. We’ll see.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The exhaust is installed, albeit temporarily. It looks great! It mounts low and does not obscure all those pretty purple and chrome bits on the engine. I hope, however, that the baja bumper clears it. It’s temporarily mounted because I wanted to verify fit and take a couple of pictures. I’m very pleased with how … Continue reading Exhaust Looks Great, Fuel Tank Does Not<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vw-trike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}